TOPIC: TW3 #76 Hosted By Friendly Photon - May 21 to June 1st 2012

Summer's here early this year! And I'd love to see some early summer pictures from around the continent (or globe? Leighgion? Pablo? BCB?) Mind you, I won't complain if rmtagg shares more gorgeous pictures of hot women

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I'm keeping this one open a few extra days because I feel like it So if you end up with a couple more than 3x3 pictures to share, feel free to add them on too.

Well if i wait until i have 3 to post together, it may be a few days, so i'm gonna put up my photo of yesterday's partial solar eclipse. Aiming directly at the sun and using a 9-stop ND naturally created much flare, so I went with a mono toned effect here and blended 4 bracketed images to reasonably balance the sun/moon exposure with the silhouette of Coit Tower. This represents a little more than 4-stops of dynamic range.

As I was shooting my landscapes down the river came these kayakers. Quickly switch to 1250 ISO. Was in manual controls so I had to move fast and quess a lot on the exposures. Can you spot the helmut of the one guy? Wish I had more time to set up. JIM